AdamsYoung Building

AdamsYoung Building is a moderately sized primary school in DETROIT, Michigan, one of the schools within Lincoln-King Adams-Young Academy. The school educates 520 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 41% larger than the typical public school in Michigan, which averages around 369 students.

Across the 3 schools in Lincoln-King Adams-Young Academy (1,609 students total), AdamsYoung Building accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, AdamsYoung Building reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (99%). The wider county runs roughly 37% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 65.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 87% of students at AdamsYoung Building qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Wayne County's rate of about 66%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wayne County indicate median household income runs about $60,539, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), AdamsYoung Building is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LincolnKing AdamsYoung Grove Campus, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

AdamsYoung Building operates from a downtown location. AdamsYoung Building operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On the community side, the feed for AdamsYoung Building typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.